MUSIC SPOTLIGHT
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AEROSMITH’S
STEVEN TYLER
Artist Eric Payson recalls getting up close and personal with the Rock Legend By Adam Kluger
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Metropolitan Magazine | 25AMagazine.com
Eric, how did these amazing images of Steven Tyler come about? When I used to work at MTV I became friendly with a bunch of the producers there and many of them went on to work with the biggest names in rock and my friend John Bendis who worked very closely with Tom Petty and Aerosmith invited me up to a recording session where they were doing Just Push Play in 2000 on the eve of the George Bush steal of the election. They put me up in a nice bed and breakfast outside of Worchester they had taken over, there’s a farm up there that’s also a recording studio, and people can stay for a couple of weeks and record their album. The Rolling Stones were up there when they recorded Goat’s Head Soup. So, Bendis brought me up there and Steven Tyler and I just hit it off immediately. We were fast friends. In
